dike
IPA: dˈaɪk
noun
- (US dialect slang, obsolete) A well-dressed man.
- (US dialect slang, obsolete) Formalwear or other fashionable dress.
- A topographic surname from Middle English for someone living near a dike.
- (Greek mythology) The goddess/personification of justice, order and judgement and one of the Horae. She is a daughter of Zeus and Themis, and her sisters are Eirene and Eunomia. Her Roman counterpart is Justitia.
- (astronomy) 99 Dike, a main belt asteroid.
- (poetic) justice, order and judgement.
- (chiefly US) Alternative form of dyke: ditch; embankment; waterway; etc. [(historical) A long, narrow hollow dug from the ground to serve as a boundary marker.]
- Alternative form of dyke: (slang, usually derogatory) a masculine woman; a lesbian. [(historical) A long, narrow hollow dug from the ground to serve as a boundary marker.]
verb
- (US dialect slang, obsolete) To be well dressed.
- (chiefly US) Alternative form of dyke: to dig a ditch; to raise an earthwork; etc. [(transitive or intransitive) To dig, particularly to create a ditch.]
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Examples of "dike" in Sentences
- A submersible dike extends to the Illinois shore.
- Immediately the effects of the Hoover Dike were seen.
- The effects of the Hoover Dike were seen immediately.
- A long submersible dike continues to the Missouri shore.
- In the rainy season, water advances to the eastern dike.
- Ringvaart is also the name of the dike bordering the canal.
- The British restored the Jezreel dike and construction resumed.
- The ground above the dike was significantly cracked and faulted.
- One of the solutions was the construction of the Herbert Hoover Dike.
- A submersible earthen dike extends from the movable dam to the Illinois shore.
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